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Friggin' Yog Sothoth, photobombing New Horizons.

[Ddynamo]

Did they really name one of the regions of Pluto after Cthulhu? It's called Cthulhu Regio, and it's in an image right above the video.

They've got a number of neat photos of mountain ranges, ice flows and other features on Pluto and Charon.

[ChairmanPoo]

I was in an oncology course last week. We had many prestigious lecturers at the event (among them my former boss).

I *think* however, that the most interesting bit, and what I want to share with you, was the presentation made by a guy from the Pennsylvania university.

Basically, Novartis has thrown it's weight behind them and shit's getting real with CAR T- Cell therapy:

- The results for their anti-CD19 are looking sweet so far. In fact, they're starting a worldwide trial for it (this kind of thing requires lots of money... would have been impossible if Novartis hadn't stepped in)

- They're developing portable machines to prepare CAR T-Cells, as to be able to generate them in a more automated fashion, and make the whole thing cheaper and more avaiable for the general public

- They're also developing a procedure to generate new CAR T-Cell lines against new tumors in a more automated fashion

- They have started or are about to start clinical trials against 8 malignancies or so. Including several solid tumors.

- Furthermore, there's ANOTHER big company which has thrown it's weight in CARs: Celgene is developing it's own anti-CD-19, and there are two large institutions (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and... some other) working a lot in this stuff as well.

[Descan]

Is this 'cure for cancer' tier or 'better than chemo' tier or 'at least it's not chemo' tier?

[Bauglir]

As a washed-up former biologist who's merely skimmed some discussion, by which I mean as somebody whose word cannot be trusted, it looks like it's better than chemo, but with its own particular brand of shitty side-effects.

[ChairmanPoo]

Do they have any way to actually get rid of the CAR T-Cells safely or no?

it can be done, but they (that is this group) dId not, to prevent relapse in the case of ALL and because responses were often delayed in CLL.

[martinuzz]

My hometown university made a major breakthrough in solar fuel cell technology recently. Using gallium phosphide nanowires, they are able to use sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen.
Even though efficiency still needs upgrading (it is not bad though), the nanowires are also much cheaper in rare materials cost than any other solar cell so far.

If I were a rich man, I'd invest in this right now.
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=40801.php

https://www.tue.nl/en/university/news-and-press/news/17-07-2015-nanowires-give-solar-fuel-cell-efficiency-a-tenfold-boost/

[ChairmanPoo]

If I were a rich man

Yubby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dibby dum

[wierd]

My hometown university made a major breakthrough in solar fuel cell technology recently. Using gallium phosphide nanowires, they are able to use sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen.
Even though efficiency still needs upgrading (it is not bad though), the nanowires are also much cheaper in rare materials cost than any other solar cell so far.

If I were a rich man, I'd invest in this right now.
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=40801.php

https://www.tue.nl/en/university/news-and-press/news/17-07-2015-nanowires-give-solar-fuel-cell-efficiency-a-tenfold-boost/

Dont titanium dioxide (titanium white, it's cheap, it's what makes white latex paint white) nanopillars do the same thing with some absurd efficiency when exposed to UV?

Since the issue with pure titanium dioxide is the fast hole-electron recombination, and since gallium phosphide looks like a pretty beefy semiconductor-- could the nanowires be combined with the titanium dioxide nanopillars to achieve the same end, instead of using silver or gold as an electron sink? 

[Arx]

My hometown university made a major breakthrough in solar fuel cell technology recently. Using gallium phosphide nanowires, they are able to use sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen.
Even though efficiency still needs upgrading (it is not bad though), the nanowires are also much cheaper in rare materials cost than any other solar cell so far.

If I were a rich man, I'd invest in this right now.
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=40801.php

https://www.tue.nl/en/university/news-and-press/news/17-07-2015-nanowires-give-solar-fuel-cell-efficiency-a-tenfold-boost/

This is pretty cool.


3D printed supercar.

This is apparently pretty good carbon-wise compared to a factory, so it's cool if they can get it going large-scale.

[iceball3]

My hometown university made a major breakthrough in solar fuel cell technology recently. Using gallium phosphide nanowires, they are able to use sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen.
Even though efficiency still needs upgrading (it is not bad though), the nanowires are also much cheaper in rare materials cost than any other solar cell so far.

If I were a rich man, I'd invest in this right now.
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=40801.php

https://www.tue.nl/en/university/news-and-press/news/17-07-2015-nanowires-give-solar-fuel-cell-efficiency-a-tenfold-boost/

This is pretty cool.


3D printed supercar.

This is apparently pretty good carbon-wise compared to a factory, so it's cool if they can get it going large-scale.

"You wouldn't download a car"
"I would if I could!"
well... there we go.
Neat news nonetheless, I wonder how materials manufacturing on large scale compares between normal car manufacturing? The production line helps speed up production by spreading out construction to many specialized machines, for instance.
That said, making a card out of carbon fiber is interesting.

[Gentlefish]

Well, instead of having a lot of different stops for one car, we now have a lot of the same printing machines, each which can produce one of many cars in X hours.

[Sheb]

What's the advantage though? We're pretty damn good at manufacturing.

[forsaken1111]

What's the advantage though? We're pretty damn good at manufacturing.

printing usually means less material used overall and you can do some pretty unique 3D structure stuff which would be difficult or impossible to mill or cast

[nogoodnames]

Flexibility is probably going to be a factor too. If you want to, say, tweak the car's body, it's going to be easier to load a new template into a printer than retool a factory.